Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju granted bail (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:45 AM PDT Reuters - A court granted bail to Ramalinga Raju, former chairman and founder of outsourcer Satyam Computer Services, in a case of accounting fraud that turned out to be India's biggest corporate scandal. |
Sri Lanka's Randiv gets one-match ban for no-ball gaffe (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 08:10 AM PDT Reuters - Sri Lanka bowler Suraj Randiv has been suspended for one match and forfeited his fees after a controversial no-ball incident in the one-day tri-series match against India at Dambulla on Monday. |
Three Indian U.N. peacekeepers killed in Congo attack (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 10:45 AM PDT Reuters - Three Indian U.N. peacekeepers were killed in an attack on their base in Congo by 50 fighters armed with machetes and spears, the U.N. mission MONUSCO said on Wednesday. |
Last U.S. combat troops leaving Iraq - NBC (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:44 PM PDT Reuters - The last U.S. combat troops are leaving Iraq in a convoy to Kuwait, more than seven years after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, NBC News reported on Wednesday. |
Delhi battles to clear vermin before Commonwealth athletes arrive (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 03:40 AM PDT Reuters - While the anti-corruption watchdogs smell a proverbial rat in the construction works, a veterinary team has been assigned the job of removing the actual rodents from the Commonwealth Games venues by mid-September. |
Finmin offers concessions on new tax plan (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 08:56 AM PDT Reuters - Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday offered concessions on most major demands by states on legislation needed to allow an ambitious tax reform to take effect from next April. |
Parliamentary panel suggests tougher nuclear liability bill (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 03:03 AM PDT Reuters - A parliamentary panel on Wednesday recommended changes to a bill aimed at opening up India's $150 billion nuclear power market, including trebling accident compensation and extending liability to private firms. |
Bombay High Court concludes hearing in Vodafone tax case (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 07:22 AM PDT Reuters - The Bombay High Court on Wednesday concluded its hearing in Vodafone's appeal against the country's tax department, but reserved a judgment, a Vodafone representative said. |
Anil Ambani eyes stake in commodity bourse (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:27 AM PDT Reuters - Billionaire Anil Ambani's group plans to buy 26 percent of a local commodities exchange, signalling growing corporate interest in bourses where Goldman Sachs and IntercontinentalExchange have bought small stakes. |
Book Talk: Mixed marriage and a real-life love story (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 03:48 AM PDT Reuters - Snooping around as a teenager, Tishani Doshi came across a bunch of love letters written by her Welsh mother to her Indian father and thought it would make a good novel. |
ANALYSIS - Why is the world not responding as Pakistan drowns? (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:10 PM PDT Reuters - Scant international donations to flooded Pakistan are being driven by a multitude of factors ranging from the financial crisis, donor fatigue, a low death toll and scepticism that the government can translate the contributions into effective aid, say relief workers and analysts. |
U.N. secures more Pakistan flood relief funds (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 08:28 AM PDT Reuters - Nearly half the $459 million needed to fund initial relief efforts following Pakistan's worst ever floods has been secured after days of lobbying donors and warnings that the country faces a spiralling humanitarian catastrophe, the United Nations said on Wednesday. |
Q+A: India's nuclear commerce liability bill (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:39 AM PDT Reuters - A parliamentary panel studying a bill to open up India's $150 billion nuclear power sector presented its recommendations to parliament on Wednesday. |
Harvard top university as China progresses (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:36 AM PDT Reuters - Harvard retains the crown as top university for the eighth year in an annual ranking of the world's universities which is dominated by the United States but shows China's performance improving. |
Ban could spell end of Anelka's France career (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:54 PM PDT Reuters - Nicolas Anelka was banned for 18 matches on Tuesday for his role in France's World Cup revolt, a punishment that could spell the end of his international career. |
Disease hovers over Pakistan's flood-stricken children (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:13 AM PDT Reuters - As Pakistan's floodwaters rushed into Bakhmina Said's mud-brick home, she grabbed medical records of her daughter's heart condition, put them in a metal trunk and headed to high ground. |
Govt to reprieve some BlackBerry services - source (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:01 PM PDT Reuters - India will allow BlackBerry's messenger service to continue beyond an Aug. 31 deadline, but could shut down its secure email service if access is not given to its encrypted data by then, a senior government source said. |
INTERVIEW - Ouseph heads for Paris on a high (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:33 PM PDT Reuters - The days when Rajiv Ouseph's mum used to drive him and his two sisters to local badminton events are past but all the effort has not been in vain. |
Former Satyam chairman Raju granted bail - TV (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2010 02:36 AM PDT Reuters - A court on Wednesday granted bail to former chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ramalinga Raju, in a case of alleged accounting fraud, television channels said. |